i looked at the options with the way the civil war is going at how fractured the opposition is and how al-qaeda is a a huge part of that opposition and not that i'm not sure. right now, my position is if we were to go in there and try to arm rebel groups it would make the situation worse and there would be an enormous risk of us getting dragged into a war that we don't know the first thing about how it would come out and second that we would wind up arming groups and individuals that would wind up threatening us. this is a terrible humanitarian crisis, i agree with that. what has been absent from a lot o the ground of the criticism is what is the specific u.s. military plan that makes this better? >> chris: quickly because i want to get to the irs. congressman rogers briefly. >> nobody is calling for military action in syria. who one. >> what are key calling for? >> there are great options and you know those. this is not something we should be arguing about. the arab league partners lost confidence in the united states. they are asking us not to be on the ground. they don't want our gr